by José Saramago · Caminho · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722112635
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«O conto da ilha desconhecida» is the modern fable by José Saramago, published by Caminho in paperback (40 pages, in Portuguese).
A man goes to the king's palace to ask for a boat and set sail for an unknown island. After navigating the court's bureaucracy, he obtains the vessel; the woman who cleans the palace offers herself as the sole crew. Together they set sail at noon in a symbolic tale about the search for identity and the need to step outside oneself.
Published in 1999.
For readers of contemporary fiction and Portuguese literature.
José de Sousa Saramago was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the most gifted novelist alive in the world today" and in 2010 said he considers Saramago to be "a permanent part of the Western canon", while James Wood praises "the distinctive tone to his fiction because he narrates his novels as if he were someone both wise and ignorant."
